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Adding a live (automatically updating) score-widget to your website is much easier than you think. In this post we'll walk through the steps required to add a widget from KeepTheScore. Why add a widget your website? Scores, by their nature, can change frequently and quickly. Keeping them... Read more →

"Gamification" is everywhere. You will find it in toddler day-care centers, in high-impact sales teams, in the classroom, in corporate training centers and of course in the games on your phone. Why? Because gamification works. What is gamification? Gamification is the use of game-design elements... Read more →

Hello! 👋 Welcome to the monthly round-up for KeepTheScore. You may not know this but KeepTheScore is a one-man show. It's one guy (me) doing the coding, the support, the design -- and writing this newsletter. Give and take 🎁 This newsletter now has over 2,000 subscribers. Amazing! 🎉 To... Read more →

Keepthescore has switched to subscription payments. Here is what that means: You can now buy a premium membership for either 10 days or a recurring subscription (which renews every month or every 6 months). If you have an active premium membership, then all boards you create (or have created in... Read more →

Cornhole (sometimes also called bean-bag-toss or sack-toss) is a much-loved game in the USA. It is usually played in the summer. To play it you require a couple of cornhole boards. These are raised, angled boards with a round hole in the far end. Players or teams take turns throwing fabric... Read more →

Hey 👋 Welcome to the monthly round-up for KeepTheScore. You may not know this but KeepTheScore is a one-man show. It's one guy (me) doing the coding, the support, the design -- and writing this newsletter. Here's what I got done in September. Improvements to sport 🏀 scoreboards I've added a few... Read more →

Digital scoreboards are an integral part of professional and semi-professional sporting events. They are essential to help keep students, players, alumni, or audience members engaged and connected. Broadly speaking, there are 2 types of digital scoreboards: video / LED scoreboards or Fixed-digit... Read more →

House points at Hogwarts are awarded for good deeds and deducted for bad deeds. The running total is made publicly available and a prize is awarded to the top-scoring house after a set period of time. Surely this is the most famous example of gamification in childrens' literature! Here's how the... Read more →

Do you need a quick and simple way of grading your students, whilst not actually grading them? Of course you do. Because it's fun, engaging, and you are promoting gentle competition. In this post, we'll look at using leaderboards in your class. The leaderboard should include all your students... Read more →

What is a ranking system? To put it simply, a ranking system is a way of comparing things (usually players or teams) so that for any 2 given things you can say which is better — which is "ranked higher". Usually these players or teams are displayed in a list with the highest rank (#1) at the... Read more →

Creating a quiz is a great way of engaging students and fostering gentle competition. It's also a lot of fun for everyone involved. The problem is that there are a huge number of resources available which can be quite overwhelming. So to help you get started we'll give you a list of tools that... Read more →

Hey 👋 Welcome to the monthly round-up for KeepTheScore. You may not know this but KeepTheScore is a one-man show. It's one guy (me) doing the coding, the support, the design -- and writing this newsletter. Here's what I got done in August. I added one headline feature and am preparing for a big... Read more →

Are you running an event that involves tracking times? Maybe you are running a Formula 1 competition or a tournament involving Mario Kart or GTA? We've got you covered! Our leaderboards and scoreboards now support times allowing you to track hours, minutes and seconds per player (or... Read more →

Hey 👋 Welcome to the monthly round-up for KeepTheScore. You may not know this but KeepTheScore is a one-man show. It's one guy (me) doing the coding, the support, the design -- and writing this newsletter. Here's what I got done in July: Added team logos for live sports scoreboards Our sports... Read more →

week by the same group of people. You can use an online score-keeping app like Keepthescore.co for this, and you should agree how the scores actually get collected. A designated person to do the score-keeping is a good idea, but it may place a burden on that individual, especially when there are... Read more →

Hey 👋 Welcome to the monthly round-up for Keepthescore.co. You may not know this but Keepthescore.co is a one-man show. It's one guy (me) doing the coding, the support, the design -- and writing this newsletter. Here's what I got done in June: Improvements for sports scoreboards Our sports... Read more →

Comparing people by their number of Twitter followers is of course nothing more than a popularity contest. It may be a very simple vanity metric, however it is useful. In general, high-profile people and those that are "good" at Twitter will have more followers than the rest. At the moment there... Read more →

You don't need to spend large sums of money on specialist equipment to get a professional looking scoreboard. In fact, you already have all the equipment you need: a PC and a TV or projector. Like many other specialist hardware, expensive scoreboards are getting replaced with generic PC hardware... Read more →

Fundraising is hard. It requires thorough planning and execution. Once it's underway, one of the challenges is drawing attention to your initiative, keeping people updated, and keeping donors coming back. One relatively easy way to update (and motivate) everybody involved is setting up a... Read more →

Creating a scoreboard for your students is a great way of keeping them engaged and fostering gentle competition. Let's take a look at why it works, what things you can track, and which tools you can use. Why use a classroom scoreboard? At the most basic level, a scoreboard should be seen as a... Read more →

Hey 👋 Welcome to the monthly round-up for Keepthescore.co. You may not know this but Keepthescore.co is a one-man show. It's one guy (me) doing the coding, the support, the design -- and writing this newsletter. Here's what I got done in May: 1. Scoreboards for live streams It's pretty easy... Read more →

It's simple to put a leaderboard onto your website. All you need to do is follow a few simple steps. Looking to embed a leaderboard in WordPress? Check out our WordPress plugin. What are the advantages of having a widget? A scoring widget makes your content dynamic and will increase the... Read more →

Are you streaming a live sports event using OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) or a similar software? If you want to add live scores to your stream, then this is the right post for you. OBS is a fantastic desktop software for streaming. It is free, available for all major platforms and easy to use.... Read more →

Hey 👋 Welcome to the monthly round-up for Keepthescore.co. You may not know this but Keepthescore.co is a one man show. It's one guy (me) doing the coding, the support, the design -- and writing this newsletter. April was a slow month in more sense than one. I took a break for Easter and was... Read more →

After a lot of overthinking I have decided to make all of my metrics public on a single dashboard. The newly created dashboard shows revenue, engagement and signups for Keepthescore.co. Click here to see the dashboard. To be clear, this is less radical that it actually sounds. Others have been... Read more →

"Gamification" is a term that has been very popular in the marketing world for a long time. It is a way to reward people for their efforts and to compare their performance with others. Naturally, this also works very well for trade shows, exhibitions and other events. If you add a digital... Read more →

Hey 👋 Welcome to the monthly round-up for Keepthescore.co. But first: you may not know this but Keepthescore.co is a one man show. It's one guy (me) doing the coding, the support, the design -- and writing this newsletter. This means that when my family and I catch Covid, everything grinds to a... Read more →

Our biggest customer is listed on the NASDAQ and runs a monthly prospecting day. We asked them for some tips on how they make their prospecting days a success. But let's start with the basics. What is prospecting? Prospecting is the act of searching for gold deposits. It started during the Gold... Read more →

Using Microsoft Excel to create a leaderboard is not hard at all if you follow these step-by-step instructions. Leaderboards are a great way of motivating any team, be it a classroom, gym buddies or a sales department. What's really nice is that you can use Microsoft's OneDrive integration to... Read more →

Hey 👋 I'm Caspar, the founder of Keepthescore.co and this is our first EVER newsletter. You are part of this historic moment 🎉 From now on, we intend to send a short monthly list of new stuff we've made so that you are always up-to-date. We aim to keep things simple and honest with no pointless... Read more →

What's the most infamous sales contest of all time? Easy. It's the one that is depicted in the 1992 film, Glengarry Glen Ross. The film shows two days in the lives of four salesmen, and their increasing desperation when the corporate office sends a motivational trainer, Blake, with his brutal... Read more →

Gamification is a topic that has been popular for some time now. The reason is that it works! In this article we'll take a look at Why you should care about gamification in your sales team. How to get outcomes quickly — without signing up to an expensive tool or tediously integrating your data... Read more →

Creating an online leaderboard in Google Sheets is a great way to keep score and motivate any team or group. You can use the sharing function of Google Sheets to "broadcast" your leaderboard to as many people as you want. At the same time you can ensure that only selected individuals can update... Read more →

What is algicosathlon? Algicosathlon is a series of videos on Youtube created by various users. The first one was created by a person known as Cary Huang. "Algicosathlon" means twenty (ico) events (sathlon) using Algodoo (Alg), which is a physics sandbox software. In Cary's version, there were... Read more →

Finally, a simple way to track scores for teams A common feature request we heard in the past was "allow players to belong to teams" or "allow players to be grouped together". So we are very pleased to present what we are calling ✨Team Leaderboards ✨. A team leaderboard allows you to track the... Read more →